{"id":16848,"date":"2016-04-16T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16848"},"modified":"2016-04-16T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T22:31:45","slug":"western-spring-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16848","title":{"rendered":"Western Spring Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It has become a spring tradition to try to get a shot of the Western Spring Azure in flight. The blue colour is only apparent when the butterfly&#8217;s wings are open, and generally that is when it is flying. But, the butterfly is small (about 29 mm wingspan) and it is a fast flier, making such a shot difficult. Most years I fail. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When resting, the spring azure folds its wings to show a mottled grey camouflage on the underside.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16851\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/springazure160416as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only rarely when it is resting will it open its wings to reveal the colour.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16850\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/springazure160416bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Typically, one only sees the colour as a tiny patch of blue shoots\u00a0past.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16849\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/springazure160416cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It has become a spring tradition to try to get a shot of the Western Spring Azure in flight. The blue colour is only apparent when the butterfly&#8217;s wings are open, and generally that is when it is flying. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16859,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}